Raevin H. Night Assignments

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Assignment 1: Reasons for Writing

Raevin Hawkins
English 8P-7
January 26, 2010





Elie Wiesel wrote the autobiography Night for many reasons. Wiesel felt that he survived the Holocaust so he could inform people about the awful things that happened to him and millions of other people during the time. Elie Wiesel also felt that it was the survivor’s job and mission to teach the world what was encountered. After Wiesel moved to America he made it his mission to speak at school and talk to large groups about the violence that occurred during World War II. Elie Wiesel also wanted to make sure that what happened in the past does not happen to the future over again. Wiesel also says the book shows how responsibility is an important factor in life. Wiesel wrote the compelling book to inform the public of the Nazis wrong doings.

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Assignment 2: Holocaust Web Search

Night Web Search
Background Information for the Holocaust
Use the following websites for a quick overview of the following terms and people.
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/

Topics to Know	Questions	Answers
Nazi Propaganda	Who is Joseph Goebbels? List three things the Nazis did to ensure that their views were shown/heard in the most persuasive manner possible. http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/propaganda_in_nazi_germany.htm	Joseph Goebbels was appointed by Hitler to be the head propaganda. Goebbels worked with the SS and the Gestapo. He also set up the Reich Chamber of Commerce in 1933 and organized many book burnings in Germany
Kristallnacht/ The Final Solution/ Wannsee Conference	What is Kristallnacht and what does the word mean? When did it happen? http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/focus/kristallnacht/ Who attended and what was decided at the Wannsee Conference? What was the Final Solution? http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005477	“The Night of Broken Glass” when and untold number of Jewish synagogues shops and homes were burned and the windows were broken. They also damaged Jewish schools homes hospitals, and cemeteries. Hitler and other high ranker German officials and officers made the Final Solution. Final Solution was to exterminate all Jews
The Victims	Besides the Jewish people, list seven other groups were also targets/victims of the Holocaust? Briefly tell the fate of each group under Nazi rule. http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007457 CLUE: Begin reading at “Targeted Groups”	Gypsies, people with disabilities, Poles, Soviet prisoners of war, Afro-Germans, Jehovah’s witnesses, homosexuals
The Ghettos	Describe the three types of ghettos, their purpose, and locations. http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005059 What was life like in the ghettos? http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007445	Closed ghettos, open ghettos, and destruction ghettos. The purpose was to segregate the certain types of people. Lodz, Krakow, Bialystok, Lvov, Lublin, Vilna, Kovno, Czestochowa, and Minsk. Closed ghettos were close in by walls or fences. Open ghettos had no walls but had restrictions on entrance and departing. Extermination ghettos only existed for two to six weeks before all of the people were killed off.
The Camps	There were two kinds of camps: labor camps and death/extermination camps. What is the difference between the two? http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005144 What were the conditions? What different types of extermination were performed? http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005145	Extermination camps were built strictly for efficient mass murder. At labor camps, people were used to experiment on and test chemicals. The conditions were extreme. Many people died just from starvation and exhaustion. People were put into gas chambers, shot in the neck, and asphyxiated.
The Liberation & The Nuremberg Trials	Who liberated the camps? http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005131 What did Hitler do near the end of the war? How many defendants were charged during the Nuremberg Trials? What did they represent? http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007143 What did the International Military Tribunal decide was not a legitimate defense? http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007142	The Soviets, the British and the American forces liberated the camps. Hitler committed suicide. 24 defendants were charged. They represented the German officials. Following orders is not a legitimate excus

Assignment 3: Images of Night

Gas Chambers
awful and deadly
suffocating, killing, murdering
as sad as a funeral, like a vacation with no return
shower with no water
devastating
with tear filled eyes of crying children